"The early years of the East Indian Indentureship system in the Caribbean experimented on 'coolie' laborers to work out a new regime of governing 'free' labor across the British Empire. Colonial Trinidad was one of the main sites for this experiment. This book foregrounds one of…
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La quatrième de couv. indique: "The early years of the East Indian Indentureship system in the Caribbean experimented on 'coolie' laborers to work out a new regime of governing 'free' labor across the British Empire. Colonial Trinidad was one of the main sites for this experimen…
"The early years of the East Indian Indentureship system in the Caribbean experimented on 'coolie' laborers to work out a new regime of governing 'free' labor across the British Empire. Colonial Trinidad was one of the main sites for this experiment. This book foregrounds one of…
"The early years of the East Indian Indentureship system in the Caribbean experimented on 'coolie' laborers to work out a new regime of governing 'free' labor across the British Empire. Colonial Trinidad was one of the main sites for this experiment. This book foregrounds one of…
"The early years of the East Indian Indentureship system in the Caribbean experimented on 'coolie' laborers to work out a new regime of governing 'free' labor across the British Empire. Colonial Trinidad was one of the main sites for this experiment. This book foregrounds one of…
"Ethnography of Trinidad focuses on processes of mass consumption. Asserts that Trinidadians confront problems of 'modernity' (focus on the present as divorced from the past, concomitant need to recreate moral premises, sense of 'compression of space-time,' sense of instability,…
From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine how far …
"Ethnography of Trinidad focuses on processes of mass consumption. Asserts that Trinidadians confront problems of 'modernity' (focus on the present as divorced from the past, concomitant need to recreate moral premises, sense of 'compression of space-time,' sense of instability,…
"How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent an…
"How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent an…
"J. Brent Crosson's Experiments with Power opens in Trinidad in 2011 with the declaration of a state of emergency. Arguing that the nation's dramatic upsurge in violence was due to "thugs" and "demons," the government arrested thousands of people, mostly black men from lower-cla…
